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PREVAL Bulletin Nº8 on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) / April - June 2007
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| PRESENTATION |
PREVAL’s Electronic Newsletter 8 features a special issue on “Stakeholder Mapping or Socio-gram,” compiled by PREVAL by tapping on literature on the issue available on the Internet. As is known, change strategies aimed at sustainable development are increasingly taking on facilitating interventions to secure resources and opportunities for numerous stakeholders. The use of the stakeholder mapping tool helps represent the social realities of the proposed intervention, fully understand their complex nature and develop intervention strategies based on more information than merely common sense or the single opinion of a qualified informant. The use of a social map is a key tool for designing and kick-starting any change project or initiative and also when negotiating / putting together the plan of action to be followed, as it enables an understanding of who our allies are and with whom we can build partnerships, as well as the identification of potential conflicts of interest. PREVAL’s Newsletter 8 features in its section “PREVAL IN ACTION” news concerning the most recent activities of this regional program; the section on “Communities and Networks” provides updated information on a number of learning communities related with M&E; and the “Courses and Events” section outlines the main activities that will be carried out during the first half of 2007. Further, we are including a section on “Best Practices in Monitoring and Evaluation” including two interesting articles, one on “The experience of forming young evaluators” of the K'ayamanta Project run by a Bolivian agency, and the other one on “Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: Approaches, Steps and Factors for Success” by PREVAL, outlining the conceptual and methodological guidelines followed by this IFAD regional programme. We expect that this number will be useful to individuals and organizations interested in the issue of Monitoring and Evaluation of rural development projects. Emma Rotondo “Networking to build stronger M&E capacity” If you do not wish to receive PREVAL’s e-bulletin, please send the following message to preval4@desco.org: “Not subscribed to e-bulletin”. |
| PREVAL IN ACTION |
PREVAL is a regional program specializing in capacity building in Monitoring and Evaluation of rural development projects. It provides technical assistance, develops training and inter-learning processes and creates knowledge on Good Practice in M&E. To promote sharing and disseminate knowledge, PREVAL has an electronic network bringing together nearly 1,600 individual members as well as a bilingual website in Spanish and English. For further information on PREVAL click here: http://www.preval.org/pagina.php?secCodigo=53&idioma=8 Below is a description of the activities undertaken by PREVAL over the past few months.
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| NOTES ON PROGRAMMES, COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS |
1.- Second ReLAC Conference, "Monitoring and Evaluation’s Contributions to Governance and Democracy," Bogota, Colombia, 17 – 21 July 2007
2.- ASOCAM’s 10th Latin American Workshop Seminar 2007: “Public Policy for the Promotion of Local Economic Development,” Central America, May 20 - 24 To provide an opportunity for sharing, reflecting upon and developing approaches to public policy for the promotion of local economic development (PLED), the Network on Sustainable Agriculture in Mountains (ASOCAM) is hosting a 10th Latin American Workshop Seminar. This event will focus on the discussion of eight relevant experiences at a regional level, including the discussion of strategies, implementation and evaluation of public policy. To read more about the workshop, go to http://www.asocam.org/images/Informacion.htm 3.- “Regional Learning Program,” Impact Alliance. Lima, January 20 - 21 To increase the impact of sub-national governments on poverty reduction in Latin America, Impact Alliance (IA), in partnership with the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) and under the management of PACT (an AI partner), hosted a workshop that brought together knowledge networks and communities, and learning platforms. Read more in http://www.impactalliance.org/ev_es.php?ID=20953_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC 4.- Impact Alliance - “Regional Learning Program” (in Spanish, PAR) PAR is a partnership developed by the Impact Alliance (IA) and DFID to increase the impact of sub-national governments on poverty reduction in Latin America. Its aim is to create learnings to direct and enhance both quality and sustainability of interventions. To share experiences and trigger discussion go to http://gestionconocimiento.typepad.com/my_weblog/. 5.- COMPARTIR: “Your resource base for learnings” AVINA is a not-for-profit organization that engages in partnerships with civil society and private sector leaders to promote sustainable development initiatives in Latin America. Together with its partners/leaders, it has designed “COMPARTIR: Your resource base for learnings,” a web-based library that provides an opportunity for sharing knowledge, finding material and posting your own documents. The database may be accessed through the AVINA website: www.avina.net. 6.- Pelican Initiative Pelican seeks to liaise between professionals of different development-related backgrounds to enable them to share experiences and trigger discussions to address a key question: “How can we learn more from what we do while at the same time having the biggest possible impact on the social change processes in which we engage?" The listserve runs debates and consultations – in English – and their platform provides different ways of sharing information. To join, go to 7.- ICT Development by ELDIS This section features a special site with guidelines on how to build and maintain web-based learning communities. Go to |
| SPECIAL FEATURE ON "STAKEHOLDER MAPPING" |
The feature article of this newsletter addresses the issue of “stakeholder mapping”. The first part of this section provides a list of links of interest leading to resources; and the second part contains a list of literature organized around: (i) approaches to and guides on stakeholder mapping; and (ii) case studies. The information selected is in Spanish and English. 1.- Links of interest
2.- Selection of Publications
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